Trump Says We ‘Gotta’ edit the First Amendment -- make flag burning illegal again

[essentialsaltes]

“I wanna get a law passed […] You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. Gotta do it — you gotta do it,” Trump said.

On Monday, Trump complained about pushback to a proposal to sentence people to a year in jail for burning the American flag.

“They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”

In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that while the desecration of the flag may be objectionable, “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”

 

[wing2000]

“I wanna get a law passed […] You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. Gotta do it — you gotta do it,” Trump said.

On Monday, Trump complained about pushback to a proposal to sentence people to a year in jail for burning the American flag.

“They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”

....don't ya love how he says it out loud? "We'll make it consitutional."

 

[loveofourlord]

I agree, how about defacing the flag wich actually is ilegal, hmmm...but that would be election interferance.

 

[Desk trauma]

Flag burning contributes only hate.

And is protected by the first amendment.

 

[Desk trauma]

....don't ya love how he says it out loud? "We'll make it consitutional."

I recall when he wanted to make flag burners stateless, guess he’s moderating his position but with anti constitutional flare.

 

[Pommer]

I seem to vaguely recall that Joe Biden was a co-sponsor [circa 1988?] of a Senate resolution calling for a constitutional Amendment to safeguard any Old Glory from deliberate protesting conflagrations.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I seem to vaguely recall that Joe Biden was a co-sponsor [circa 1988?] of a Senate resolution calling for a constitutional Amendment to safeguard any Old Glory from deliberate protesting conflagrations.

In response to Texas v. Johnson, the 101st Congress passed the Flag Protection Act of 1989, ['just' a law] which attempted to circumvent the Johnson ruling by prohibiting mistreatment of the flag without regard to any message being conveyed. [It passed overwhelmingly in both House and Senate. Biden had introduced a similar Senate bill, but I believe the House version was the one finally passed. It was quickly overturned in

United States v. Eichman​

Since then, there have apparently been a lot of votes on an actual amendment. Some have passed the House, none have passed the Senate. The closest was 2006, when it fell one short of the two-thirds needed in the Senate. Biden was a nay then.

 

[Pommer]

In response to Texas v. Johnson, the 101st Congress passed the Flag Protection Act of 1989, ['just' a law] which attempted to circumvent the Johnson ruling by prohibiting mistreatment of the flag without regard to any message being conveyed. [It passed overwhelmingly in both House and Senate. Biden had introduced a similar Senate bill, but I believe the House version was the one finally passed. It was quickly overturned in

United States v. Eichman​

Since then, there have apparently been a lot of votes on an actual amendment. Some have passed the House, none have passed the Senate. The closest was 2006, when it fell one short of the two-thirds needed in the Senate. Biden was a nay then.

I remember this from a Mike Luckovich which placed “Jo Bi Den” in the role of an authoritarian Chinese “thought police” pol. But good luck finding it.